In “Someone’s Mother,” the author stated that hitchhiking is illegal, but it is a common thing to see hitchhikers on Route 20, in upstate New York. The driver saw a person needing a ride, but she passed the person. Something made the driver turn back around and helped the old lady who was waving her hands while grinning widely. I enjoyed reading “Someone’s Mother,” because it is an easy interesting read. The story isn’t complicated and it’s easy to follow. The author included flashbacks and flash-forwards. The author mentioned that the hitchhiker reminded the author of her mother. The author brought up that a few years ago, her mother was living in her house on Long Island. Later on, she unfortunately did not know how to dress herself up
one morning (line 20). The hitchhiker is in the same situation as the author’s mother, but instead of forgetting how to dress up, she does not know where she lives. The author thought of calling the police and speaking to the pharmacist in the drug store, but her son would find out. Therefore, the author told the hitchhiker to tell the pharmacist if no comes to pick her up (line 29). Joan Murray included details in pretty much every paragraph, which I’ll explain in the next question. One last thing, Joan Murray had a couple great word choice. Words like lilting and whizzed are new words I’ve never heard of before. I liked how to the author described the hitchhiker. I can picture the hitchhiker in my mind by the description the author gave her. “As I drove back up the hill, I eyed the hitchhiker in the distance: dark blue raincoat, jaunty black beret. Thin arms waving, spine a little bent. Wisps of white hair lilting as the trucks whizzed by. I made a U-turn and pulled up on the gravel, face to face with an eager old woman who kept waving till I stopped” (line 6-7). I can see a skinny cute old lady with a blue raincoat and a wearing a black beret hat, waving at the driver, smiling broadly with her back bent. That made a big impact towards how I felt about the ending. I felt sorrowful towards the hitchhiker when said “I don’t know where I live” (line 26). Wouldn’t the son know if she wasn’t at home or at the nursing home? It’s odd that no one is looking for the hitchhiker. If the hitchhiker wasn’t described in details, then I wouldn’t feel so sad towards her in the end. Conflict needs to be part of any narrative essay, otherwise there would be no point in reading the essay. Conflict was shown near the middle of the essay, which is where the climax usually happens in most stories. The driver wanted to personally take the old lady home, but she refused to. Then the driver insisted in taking her to the police station or her house because she didn’t want to leave her alone. The old lady pleaded not to do those actions, but to leave her at the drugstore instead.
Although her father got her interested in storytelling it was Goodwin’s mother that got her interested in books. She goes on to tell that if her mother was not doing anything else she would always be reading no matter what time it was. Goodwin writes that every night before bedtime her mother would come and read to her. Goodwin’s favorite times with her mother though were when her mother would tell her real life stories about when she was younger. During this time Goodwin liked to believe that her mother forgot about the pain that she went through constantly due to her bad health.
Lucille Fletcher’s story “The Hitchhiker”, is a story that creates fear in the hearts of some people. And not just any fear, a fear that would impel even the strongest man to go insane. The main character, Ronald Adams, had that fear, with seeing a hitchhiker more than ten times drove him to almost getting hit by a train. Fletcher creates an effective, and suspenseful story, with the use of elemental plots.
The protagonist is Aja Houston. She grew up in Middletown Delaware. She was the oldest out of three daughters. She considered herself the "experimental “child. Her parents were very young when they started a family. Her mother struggled to graduate high school because she got pregnant with Aja and biological father never step up and decided to stay in the streets collecting drug money. Houston was very lucky that at age two her mother found the man of her dreams and he was said to be one of the greatest gifts god had given her. She had a very special bond with her beautiful mother she was her first child, who she had raised alone for two years with the support of her mother and grandmother. Her mother was a very strong minded independent woman
The mother is a selfish and stubborn woman. Raised a certain way and never falters from it. She neglects help, oppresses education and persuades people to be what she wants or she will cut them out of her life completely. Her own morals out-weight every other family member’s wants and choices. Her influence and discipline brought every member of the family’s future to serious-danger to care to her wants. She is everything a good mother isn’t and is blind with her own morals. Her stubbornness towards change and education caused the families state of desperation. The realization shown through the story is the family would be better off without a mother to anchor them down.
Hitch is about Alex “Hitch” Hitchens, the date doctor, who helps men get together with women who are out of their league or otherwise wouldn’t think about dating them. One of those men happens to be Alex Brennaman who is in love with Allegra Cole who happens to be his boss. Hitch is able to build up Alex’s courage and help him get the attention Allegra. At the same time Hitch is falling for Sara, who is a gossip columnist wondering who the new guy being seen with Allegra is. The movie is about falling love with the right person. With that right person often not noticing them. The key is communication between the two people, so then the person can get the attention needed.
For this paper I read the novel The Memory Keeper’s Daughter by Kim Edwards, this novel is told in the span of 25 years, it is told by two characters David and Caroline, who have different lives but are connected through one past decision. The story starts in 1964, when a blizzard happens causing the main character, Dr. David Henry to deliver his own twins. During the delivery, the son named Paul is fine but the daughter named Phoebe has something wrong with her. The doctor realizes that the daughter has Down syndrome, he is shocked and remembers his own childhood when his sister was always sick, her dying at an early age and how that affected his mother. He didn’t want that to happen to his wife, so David told the nurse to bring Phoebe to an institution, so that his wife wouldn’t suffer.
.... The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meanings. New York: W.W. Norton, 1981.
The well written novel My Mothers Secret By J.L Witterick is one of the best novels I have read in quite a while. The message being told is so powerful. The setting of the story is being told during the Holocaust’s dark times. The characters in the story are brave individuals that went out of their way to help others to survive. For instance, Helena, a young hard working lady with limited education and her mother, Franciszka have to make a rough decision that could land them six feet underground. They go out of their way to save lives of other individuals that have also helped them throughout their lives. The themes being shown amongst the novel is Virtuous versus Malicious, things are not always as they appear, and man versus him-self.
I read Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. This book is about a young orphan child, with a never-ending imagination, named Anne. Anne has been taken in and out of orphanages all her life. Until, one day Matthew Cuthbert and his sister, Miss Marilla Cuthbert, are interested in having a young boy to live with them. They called the orphanage and told them to send the child on the train. He goes to the train station to pick the child up, but to his surprise he found Anne. Anne tells Matthew how she imagines living there would be like. She was so set on staying that Matthew just couldn't leave her at the train station. He takes her to his house, and while on the journey, Anne is enjoying every moment of the beautiful flowered valleys. Miss Cuthbert is very surprised to see a girl, and is ...
Me personally, I relate to this book and one character in particular. Lily Owens. Lily owens is a fourteen year old girl, living with her father after an incident occurred where she accidentally killed her mother when she was just a little girl. Ever since her mother died, so did apart of her dad, T Ray Owens. T-Ray portraits a angry and hurt man. Because of this, he treats Lily with no respect at all. Another reason
For summer reading this year, I read Mosquitoland, by David Arnold, about a girl’s adventure cross-country. Though it seems to her in the beginning that her goal is to reunite with her sickly mother and get away from her new life in “Mosquitoland,” as the story progresses, the main character Mim discovers new perspectives about herself and her family that she previously had never considered. While she does achieve her initial goal of finding her mother, she learned more from the adventure than its end; as new perspectives were introduced to her, she changed, and learned that things are not always exactly how she sees them.
The Progress of Love by Alice Munro Plot: Woman gets a call at work from her father, telling her that her mother is dead. Father never got used to living alone and went into retirement home. Mother is described as very religious, Anglican, who had been saved at the age of 14. Father was also religious and had waited for the mother since he first met her. They did not have sex until marriage and the father was mildly disappointed that the mother did not have money.
The Hitchhiking Game describes an internal combat that focuses on internal character and the discovery of new selves within. Kundera presents to the audience a story about a young man and a girl who lose themselves while trying to portray someone they customarily are not. Throughout their portrayal of “happy-go-lucky” and “irresponsible” strangers, the young man loses trust in the girl and is never able to view her the same way again. Although the girl did not want to advance the game once she recognized his aversion towards her actions, he was too invested in the role he was portraying to turn back. He became disgusted with the “alien whore” she had become and at once stopped treating her with the respect and love he had before, and began treating her as an object of desire. It is apparent that Kundera believes we are very complex creatures that do not have a static and stable character. Kundera wrote, “perhaps it was a part of her being which had formerly been locked up and which the pretext of the game had let out of its cage.”(pg.123) I think this quote successfully encapsulates the way Kundera perceives our character and how divergent it can be.
The book that I have currently finished was Life on the Refrigerator Door by: Alice Kuipers. This book is about a really poor relationship between mother and daughter. What makes their relationship not really well built is that when they need to tell each other something they wrote on a sticky note and posted it up on the refrigerator. For example: on pages 6 and 7 (page 6) “I’m running out the door. I’m on call this weekend. Sorry Love, Mom” (page 7) “I’m going to spend the night at Emma’s. You seemed a bit tired last night, Mom I hope you’re not working too hard??? See you tomorrow. Claire.” I feel like that something bad had happened and made the relationship happen in the book.
Each person has their own way of seeing life and knowing what is best for them. The fact that some people know what they are doing is wrong, it is terrible. This happens in the story,” The Hitchhiking Game” by Milan Kundera. Two individuals lose all boundaries when they play new roles in the game. The game is more important than their own consciences and responsibilities. It brings forward a reality that when people fall in love, they forget about others and pay more attention to the one they are with; Nietzsche’s would urge this couple to reevaluate all values.